Awesome ad for journalist

26 Mar 2011
2
minute read

I’m not even a journo, but hell… I’d turn out for this ad. Love it, and think it’s an excellent example of the awesome type of ads you can write to attract precisely the type of people you want to be working with if you’re hiring for attitude rather than skills expertise (which to be honest is half the battle I find). Try to write my dev ads like this, but wow… this is great.

We do a mix of quick hit investigative work when events call for it and
mini-projects that might run for a few days. But every year we like to put
together a project way too ambitious for a paper our size because we dream
that one day Walt Bogdanich will have to say: ‘I can’t believe the Sarasota
Whatever-Tribune cost me my 20th Pulitzer.’ As many of you already know,
those kinds of projects can be hellish, soul-sucking, doubt-inducing affairs.
But if you’re the type of sicko who likes holing up in a tiny, closed office
with reporters of questionable hygiene to build databases from scratch by
hand-entering thousands of pages of documents to take on powerful people and
institutions that wish you were dead, all for the glorious reward of having
readers pick up the paper and glance at your potential prize-winning epic as
they flip their way to the Jumble… well, if that sounds like journalism
Heaven, then you’re our kind of sicko.

For those unaware of Florida’s reputation, it’s arguably the best news state
in the country and not just because of the great public records laws. We have
all kinds of corruption, violence and scumbaggery. The 9/11 terrorists
trained here. Bush read My Pet Goat here. Our elections are colossal
clusterfucks. Our new governor once ran a health care company that got hit
with a record fine because of rampant Medicare fraud. We have hurricanes,
wildfires, tar balls, bedbugs, diseased citrus trees and an entire town
overrun by giant roaches (only one of those things is made up). And we have
Disney World and beaches, so bring the whole family.